Re: How Do You Say Oklahoma in English?

vmaverick — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:40:48 -0000

As to your PS -- it's a traditional joke dating back, in various forms, to the 19th century. (See Benjamin Zimmer in Language Log.)

Your idea that English isn't English unless the proper names are themselves English is easy to reduce to absurdity -- only a small fraction of placenames in England would pass muster.

Re: Tenet’s Interrogation Techniques

vmaverick — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:59:11 -0000

Note the consistent, disingenuous emphasis on the safety of the "techniques", as if the moral argument had anything to do with danger. (Why not amputate limbs? After all, under proper medical care, this would be perfectly safe.)

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